A federal judge ruled Tuesday in Chicago that United Airlines (UAL) may temporarily postpone safety inspections on any plane that carries more than 83 passengers. Industry analysts say the move will help the company in its ongoing contract negotiations with the mechanics' and machinists' union.
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M&M's recently announced plans to remove the color from it's colorful hard shelled candy, selling only black and white candies for the first few months of 2004. The marketing gimmick will culminate in a contest in which bags of colored M&M's will be reintroduced one at a time for lucky customers to find a la "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Inspired by the marketing move, Denny's restaurant chain announced today that it will also be removing color from it's ambiance and revert to serving only white customers. The move will be part of a contest entitled "Spot the Color".
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Boston based Gillette, Co. announced better than expected third quarter earnings with razor and blade sales jumping 17% and Duracell battery sales up with an 8% industry-wide surge. Publicly, Gillette is thanking the North East blackout and Hurricane Isabel for a one-time gain in battery sales and favorable currency exchange rates for a favorable currency exchange but some industry analysts are suggesting that something more insidious is happening.
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An economic report due out this week from the University of Michigan is expected to present good news about consumer confidence as schools all across the nation begin classes again and ridiculous promotions and advertising for "back-to-school" sales subside.
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A local housewife, tired of empty promises from a myriad of realtors, has decided to leave the possible sale of some land her husband owns, "up to the Lord."
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Wisconsin is a state that knows a lot about cheese. Coincidentally, Wisconsin has a lot of fat women. So it should be no shock that the first new cheese on grocers' shelves in nearly a decade will be from a Munster making Misses from the Midwest.
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When the War in Iraq started last month, veteran fashion journalist Jake "The Snake" Johnson was surprised to see his trademark reporting style in use on the front lines.
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McDonald's announced today that beginning next week, it will be introducing a new line of toys in its ever so popular "Happy Meals" to show support for the "War On Terrorism".
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A confidential White House report may explain President Bush's war on Iraq. You have heard as GM goes, so goes the nation? That is about to become as GM goes, so goes the world.
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In these days of ever tightening budgets, office efficiency has again become the concern of many managers. The recession has been the boom for companies that specialize in office efficiency studies.
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There must be a problem with the vehicles

In an unprecedented manufacturing oops, all 3 major American automakers, Ford, GM and the other one, have been forced to recall more than 10.8 million vehicles. It's rumored the Japanese are soon to follow suit.
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Peabody's filling station in Crackersboro, Tennessee has been a staple of the community for 25 years. When it opened in 1977 it meant the townsfolk no longer had to make the 15 mile trip to Jewton Falls to get gas and sundries from Hymie's Cheap Stop.
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A group of consumers in California has brought a class action suit against Levi Strauss & Co. in which they claim that the brand showed 'gross negligence' in the marketing of its newest khaki innovation. Docker's new Stain Defender Khakis are being advertised as a revolution in stain resistance. One commercial goes as far as to show some idiot pouring juice on himself to illustrate that the pants will not accept the liquid.
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Atlanta based Home Depot Inc. (NYSE- HD) announced this week that it will be relocating it's popular "Kid's Workshop" overseas. The home improvement chain, which has had a craptastic year financially with it's stock dropping over 50 percent in value, this week warned that it's fourth quarter earnings will pretty much suck too.
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Disney's second consecutive cruise has been ordered to return to port, as people fall ill seeminlgy faster than the Bush Administration's popularity rating. Matt Quimet, Disney Cruise Line president stated, "Yeah, there seems to be some sort of funk growing in the boats. We're not quite sure if it's food born, or something from the scattered feces of Mickey and his relatives. Whatever it is, we'll have it out in no time."
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In his mid-thirties and recently laid-off for the second time in five years, Brad Pitchowski has tried many ways to bring attention to his resume.
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In the fast paced world of corporate yogurt producers anything goes, and often does. As headline after headline exposes the seedy underbelly of the yogurt industry the companies themselves seem oblivious to the public relations nightmare that they are creating.
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Just days after a Los Angeles County jury awarded $28 billion to a smoker with lung cancer, a jury in Florida this week returned a $28 thousand award to long time coffee drinker Marian Owen.
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Psychologists have concluded that 15,000 United Airlines mechanics and other employees represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
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There is a new feeling of embarrassment and shame in Texas concerning Houston based Enron's record breaking bankruptcy filing late last year.
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